Players caught cheating in Call of Duty can now be punished with a penalty that makes them unable to see their opponents, a new anti-cheat mitigation feature that Activision calls "cloaking."

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has new maps this morning, four months after Activision left the game behind to focus on Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. After downloading this morning's mammoth mid-season two update, Modern Warfare fans were surprised to see the Killhouse map added to Multiplayer alongside the new Killhouse 24/7 playlist.

In a first for the Call of Duty series, players will be able to sculpt their main protagonist in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's campaign. Unlike past entries where players usually bounce around from character to character, Black Ops Cold War is more firmly planting you in the boots of one operative. Players will be able to customize their skin tone, gender, birth place, military background, and most notably, even leave aspects of their identity "classified." As for pronouns, she, he, they—it's all an option in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Bunker down.

The reports, rumors, leaks, and hints that Call of Duty 2019 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 have been building the past couple of months to the point that it's almost a sure thing this year's installment on PS4, Xbox One, and PC will be a new entry in the classic and most popular Call of Duty sub-series. The latest development that supports this is the discovery that for the new installment in the shooter series, developer Infinity Ward has recruited former Modern Warfare developers from Respawn Entertainment and other studios.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's design director, David Vonderhaar, has defended an interview where he said Blackout characters would be only be locked behind missions. The interview resurfaced after the latest update, Operation Grand Heist, snuck loot boxes into the game and trapped the new characters inside them. It's become increasingly hard to escape Black Ops 4's microtransactions. It's a premium game with a cosmetic shop, a season pass, a battle pass and now these loot crates, called 'reserve crates' in-game.

The first thing that strikes you about Blackout, Call of Duty's take on the phenomenally popular battle royale genre, is how smooth it all feels. There's a polish to the experience that's leagues above Blackout's most direct rival in the battle royale space, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. On PlayStation 4, the only platform Blackout is currently live on, Blackout runs at an impressive framerate.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4 doesn't have a single-player campaign - but it does have an egregious season pass. The Black Ops Pass, as it's called, includes a bonus zombies experience available at launch, four additional zombies experiences, four exclusive Blackout (battle royale) characters and 12 multiplayer maps. Activision has yet to announce how much the Black Ops Pass will cost.

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal event confirmed, as rumored, that the game will not have a "conventional campaign", but will instead feature a large-scale battle royale mode, Blackout, complete with land, sea, and air vehicles from the previous games. In an interview with Eurogamer, Treyarch's co-studio head Dan Bunting responded to fan feedback, and confirmed that a "traditional campaign" had never been planned for the latest Black Ops title. He also detailed what activities were going to be available to players who still want to play alone.

Sledgehammer Games has announced that Gun Game and Prop Hunt modes will now be available in Call of Duty: WWII permanently, or as they tweeted “for a really long time” because of popular demand. These two modes were introduced during the holiday events that have occurred in Call of Duty: WWII since launch, but have not been able yet outside the events. Now, the modes are available under the Featured tab for players to play.

Activision Blizzard’s ‘Call of Duty: WWII’ comes out on top this week with a 10th week at No1 - just 1 more week and it will equal the all-time No1’s for this series, 2015’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’. EA’s ‘FIFA18’ climbs one place to No2 and Rockstar/Take 2’s ‘GTA V’ surging promotional run to No1 last week is over, although ‘GTA V’ only drops to No3. It’s a Nintendo double at No’s 4 & 5 with ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ climbing one more position to No4 and ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ up 3 places to No5.

Just like the most recent Call of Duty games, this year's Call of Duty: WWII will offer microtransactions. Activision will offer "Call of Duty Points" for players to buy with real money, and these will come to Call of Duty: WWII on November 21. This is later than previously announced. Activision said it delayed the launch of microtransactions in Call of Duty: WWII so it could fix the launch issues first. That's a commendable action, given that delaying the microtransaction system means a delay in the revenue Activision will receive from them.

Call Of Duty burst onto the gaming scene in 2003 as a premier World War II shooter. Now, nearly 15 years later, the series returns to its roots with Call Of Duty: WWII. When first conceptualized in 2014, a World War II-themed game wasn’t even a blip on the radar for Sledgehammer Games, one of three Call of Duty studios under the Activision umbrella. How did three years of iteration and historical passion spawn one of 2017’s most anticipated games?

Activision announced that Call of Duty: WWII sales have surpassed over $500 million during the first three days of launch, beating out highly anticipated Thor: Raganork and Wonder Women’s opening weekend sales. Activision also announced that Call of Duty: WWII set a new record on the PS4 Store: Call of Duty: WWII is the best-selling digital full game by units sold on its first day of availability on PS4 store ever.

COD WWII allows cash grab mechanics to be seen by others, so we can make fun of you.

Over in the good old US of A, September's issue of Game Informer magazine has landed and brought with it a whole host of new details on a social space called Headquarters being introduced to Call of Duty: WW2. Apparently the area will let you not only fight to the death against a friend but also watch loot box openings and win prizes. Tonally dissonant, sure, but rather par for the course in a game where you regularly die to W33dKing_99.

Last week, Treyarch Studios’ Jason Blundell revealed a special treat for Zombies fans, Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles, a remastered Zombies experience coming first to PlayStation 4 on May 16, and available for preorder starting today. Zombies Chronicles takes players through eight fully-remastered maps from previous Treyarch Call of Duty games: Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, all in true HD with current-generation visuals...

New GameStop marketing material has revealed a new edition of Call of Duty: WWII, the Call of Duty: WWII Pro Edition — a GameStop exclusive edition in the US. It’s not clear which retailers internationally will have this edition.

There's evidence that suggests that the next Call of Duty title will take place in Vietnam and will be released in November 2017.

Call of Duty is a franchise that’s become somewhat of a punching bag in recent years, and when the Infinite Warfare trailer was revealed it became one of the most disliked videos on Youtube. The ha…